Okay, I started back on SparkPeople again on Friday, and started trying to take walks during my break at work on Thursday, and it's been a pretty good run so far. I have tracked my food every day--including today. I walked Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Sunday was impossible: we had D's Blue and Gold Banquet and in between church and that, we cleaned the guinea pig cages. By the time we were done, it was time to get ready. So okay, I let Sunday go.
I didn't want to let today go, though. I really didn't. But it was snowing all day today. And I'm sorry, I can't take my knitting and my iPod for a walk in the snow. It's just Not Fun. So I thought, okay, I'm going to go to the gym tonight. When T comes home, I'll ask him if he'll hang out with the kid, maybe help him with that last bit of homework, and I'll go to the post office and fill my gas tank and go to the gym and spend 20 minutes, even, on a treadmill.
Except poor T is still at work. It's 10:10pm, and he's still not home. His fault? Heavens, no. He is working at keeping his business afloat and thus keeping us in a house and clothes and all that great stuff I appreciate so much. But I really wanted to go for a walk today. Someday we will own an elliptical trainer. But right now we don't.
I think my only choice at the moment is one of my 20-minute Yoga videos. I don't want to just give up at this early time. So far, I'm on a "streak" and I want to keep it up. I've finally chosen things I'm actually going to do to record, and I think I'd like to, you know, do them. Every day. 10 minutes of exercise? I can do that each day, I can. I've joined a Spark Challenge that has a trophy for doing 10 minutes of exercise every day. Today, I start it. I like trophies. Trophies are wicked fun. I need more pixelated trophies in my life. It's like badges in the House Cup. I will do a whole lot for a badge.
I'm reading The Spark. I don't know why I resisted reading it for so long; I thought I knew everything there was to know by getting on the website. But some of the things they ask you to do make sense now that I've actually read a few chapters, and, put in context, I now want to do them. Spark Streaks are one.
I'm adding a counter gadget--probably just me filling in numbers--for how many days I've been on my streaks. Officially on SparkPeople I'm now on day one of most of my streaks, because I just set them today, but it's really day 4 for food tracking.
Okay, that's not the brilliant idea I had for a blog post this afternoon during lunch, but I can't remember that idea now and at least I've written something, right?
You wanna see my badges?
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